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Critiquing sovereign violence : law, biopolitics, and bio-juridicalism /

Gavin Rae offers an original approach to sovereign violence by looking at a wide range of thinkers, which he organises into three models. Benjamin, Schmitt, Arendt, Deleuze and Guattari form the radical-juridical perspective; Foucault and Agamben the biopolitical; Derrida the bio-juridical - which R...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rae, Gavin, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : University of Edinburgh, [2019]
Series:Edinburgh scholarship online.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Introduction: The Classic-Juridical Model; Part I: The Radical-Juridical Critique; 1. Critiquing Violence: Walter Benjamin on Law and the Divine; 2. Divinity within the Law: Carl Schmitt on the Violence of Sovereignty; 3.Violence and Power: Arendt on the Logic of Totalitarianism; 4. Disrupting Sovereignty: Deleuze and Guattari on the War Machine; Part II: The Biopolitical Critique; 5. From Law to Life: Foucault, Sovereignty, and Biopolitical Racism; 6. Agamben on Sovereignty, Biopolitics, and Civil War; Part III: The Bio-Juridical Critique; 7. Life and Law: Derrida on the Bio-Juridicalism of Sovereign Violence; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
  • Preface Introduction: The Classic-Juridical Model Part I: The Radical-Juridical Critique 1. Critiquing Violence: Walter Benjamin on Law and the Divine 2. Divinity within the Law: Carl Schmitt on the Violence of Sovereignty 3. Violence and Power: Arendt on the Logic of Totalitarianism 4. Disrupting Sovereignty: Deleuze and Guattari on the War Machine Part II: The Biopolitical Critique 5. From Law to Life: Foucault, Sovereignty, and Biopolitical Racism 6. Agamben on Sovereignty, Biopolitics, and Civil War Part III: The Bio-Juridical Critique 7. Life and Law: Derrida on the Bio-Juridicalism of Sovereign Violence Conclusion Bibliography; Index.